UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) hosted its Regional Roundtable on Sustainable Finance for Europe on 12-13 September 2023 in Madrid, Spain. This important event helped define the role of banking, insurance and investment in proactively accelerating a greener economy whilst transitioning to a low-carbon, inclusive and sustainable future in the region.
UNEP FI’s biennial Regional Roundtable for Europe, part of its major five regional event series on sustainable finance in 2023, showcased the cutting-edge responses to emerging global trends in sustainable finance, the responsible banking and insurance agendas as well as action on biodiversity loss. The event convened 450+ finance professionals to discuss the most pressing sustainability issues in the region such as climate and nature risk, financing the net zero transition, regulation affecting sustainability integration in the finance industry, and those further out on the horizon like circularity and plastics.
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Time | Day 1 – 12 September | |
Opening of UNEP FI Regional Roundtable Europe – Room Toledo 1+2 | ||
08:45 | Opening keynote
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09:00 | Welcome address
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09:20 | Panel: Europe at the crossroads of mainstreaming sustainable finance
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10:30 | Break | |
11:10 | Dialogue: The world’s foremost sustainable banking framework: reflecting on 4 years of the Principles for Responsible Banking
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11:50 | Panel: Regulatory perspectives on promoting sustainable finance in Europe
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Deep dive sessions (Room Toledo 1+2) | Deep dive sessions (Room Toledo 3+4) | |
13:00 | Financial services regulation in Europe: What’s next for sustainability and net zero?
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Towards Nature-positive – from the drawing board to action
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13:50 | Lunch | |
14:50 | State of ESG data in Europe: challenges and outlooks
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Financing the Just Transition: Guidance for the finance industry
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15:50 | Networking Break | |
16:15 | Making sense of the busy impact and sustainability management landscape
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Embedding sustainability in investment banking
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17:15 | End of Day 1 |
Time | Day 2 – 13 September | |
09:00 | Opening remarks Day 2 – Room Toledo 1+2 | |
09:05 | Panel: Enhancing finance industry collaboration to achieve the SDGs: a global perspective
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10:00 | Dialogue: Harmonizing sustainability standards in finance
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10:40 | Break | |
11:10 | Panel: Outlooks on climate adaptation and mitigation
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12:15 | Lunch | |
Deep dive sessions (Room Toledo 1+2) | Deep dive sessions (Room Toledo 3+4) | |
13:15 | Principles for Responsible Banking 2030: A new paradigm for the banking sector
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Building resilience and protecting the most vulnerable
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14:05 | Promoting real-world impacts and the steps taken to deliver on targets
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Nature positive insurance in a post-Global Biodiversity Framework world
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15:00 | Networking Break | |
15:30 | Promoting energy efficiency through finance
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Managing ESG risks in life & health insurance business
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16:30 | Climate transition planning for banks: a deep dive
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Achieving the SDGs, what is the role of insurance?
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17:30 | End of Day 2 |
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Careen Abb
SDGs and Impact Lead
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Ravi Abeywardana
Director of Strategic Affairs and Capacity Building, the IFRS Foundation
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Mauro Accurso
Senior Business Development Manager for Iberian Peninsula, South Pole
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Angélica Afanador
Director, Guidehouse and Executive Director, Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF)
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Patrick Amis
Head, Directorate General Specialised Institutions and LSIs, European Central Bank
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Ivani Benazzi de Andrade
Sustainability Superintendent, Bradesco Seguros (Brazil)
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Miguel Ángel Amores
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Manager, Triodos Bank
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Lucas Arangüena
Global Head of Green Finance and SCIB Head of ESG solutions, Santander
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Butch Bacani
Head of Insurance
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Philipp Bäcker
Head of Sustainability, R+V Versicherung AG
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Jordi Balcells Santolaria
Head of Sustainability, VidaCaixa
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Antoni Ballabriga
Global Head of Responsible Business, BBVA (Spain)
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Laura Barlow
Group Head of Sustainability, Barclays
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Judson Berkey
Managing Director, Chief Sustainability Office, UBS
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Adrita Bhattacharya-Craven
Director Health & Ageing, The Geneva Association
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José Luis Blasco
Global Sustainability Director, ACCIONA
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Ana Botín
Executive Chair, Santander
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Daniel Bouzas
Regional Coordinator, Europe
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Murat Bozdemir
Head, Product Development for ESG & Climate Risk Enterprise Data solutions for EMEA & APAC, Bloomberg
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Karine Bueno
Individual Review Team Lead
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Christian Castro
Head of Public Affairs, CaixaBank
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Ekaterina Chubarova
Sustainable Finance and Just Transition Specialist, ILO
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James Close
Head of Climate Change, NatWest Group
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Vincent Damas
Group Head of CSR, CNP Assurances (France)
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Lara de Mesa
Global Head of Responsible Banking, Santander (Spain)
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Carlota de Paula Coelho
Advocacy and Sustainable Finance Lead, B Lab Europe & Member, EFRAG TEG
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Alejandra Díaz
Chief Sustainability Officer, Banco Davivienda and Seguros Bolívar (Colombia)
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Johanna Dichtl
Implementation Guidance Team Lead
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Dimitrios Dimopoulos
Head of ESG, Piraeus Financial Holdings
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Piotr Dmuchowski
Vice President of the Board and Chief Investment Officer, PZU TFI
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Wendy Dobson
Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting
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Amandine Favier
Head of Sustainable Finance, WWF Switzerland
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Remco Fischer
Climate Lead, UNEP FI; Co-head of NZAOA Secretariat
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Teresa Fung
Head of Sustainability, Global Insurance, HSBC
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Marta García de Oteyza Kindelan
Director, Responsible Banking, Banco Santander
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Moira Gill
Associate Vice President, Environment, Government and Industry Relations, TD Insurance
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Romie Goedicke den Hertog
Co-Lead, Nature
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José Ignacio Goirigolzarri
Chairman, CaixaBank
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Marcel Haag
Director, Horizontal Policies, DG for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission
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Antonio Huertas
Chairman and CEO, Mapfre
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Burçak İnel
Director of Financing Sustainable Growth, European Banking Federation
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Nathalie Jaubert
Group Corporate Social Responsibility, Deputy Head, BNP Paribas
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Deepak Jobanputra
Chief Sustainability Officer, Vitality
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Patty Karuaihe-Martin
Managing Director, NamibRe (Namibia)
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Andrea Keenan
Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, AM Best
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Josh Ling
Actuary and Disaster Risk Finance Specialist, Global Shield Solutions Platform and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
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Cinzia Losenno
Senior Climate Change Specialist, Project Directorate, European Investment Bank
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José Manuel Marqués Sevillano
Head, Financial Innovation Division, Bank of Spain (Banco de España)
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Frida Mekoui
Director, Public Affairs, Societe Generale
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Vanessa Otto-Mentz
Partner, Deloitte
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Kristin Parello-Plesner
Head, Group Sustainability Danske Bank
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Pablo Pérez-Montero González
Global Head of Sustainable Finance & ESG Advisory CIB&IB, CaixaBank
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Flora Petrucci
Capacity Building Coordinator for Europe
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Michal Piechocki
Chairman, Business Reporting - Advisory Group (BR-AG P.S.A.)
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Patricia Pina
Head of Research & Innovation, Clarity AI
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Nicola Ranger
Leader, Resilience & Development Programme, & ED, Oxford Martin Programme on Systemic Resilience, University of Oxford
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Alenka Recelj Mercina
Head of Sustainability, NLB d.d
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Miguel Rescalvo
Managing Partner, Neyen
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Teresa Ribera
Vice-President, Government of Spain and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge
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Frank Jan Risseeuw
Chief Operating Officer/Chief Transformation Officer, ING
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Filipa Rodrigues Carmona
Deputy Director Sustainability, Caixa Geral de Depósitos
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Gemma Sanchez-Danes
Acting Head of Secretariat, Sustainability reporting (ESRS), EFRAG
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Reto Schnarwiler
Head Chairman's Office, Swiss Re
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Markus Seifert
Head of Nordic activities and Chairman of the Board, d-fine AB
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Tennessee Soudain
Head of Regulatory Advisory, ECOFACT
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Massimiano Tellini
Director, Global Head Circular Economy, Intesa Sanpaolo
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Marco Tormen
Europe & DACHLI Regional Lead, Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF)
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Carlos Torres Vila
Chair, BBVA
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Eric Usher
Head, UNEP Finance Initiative
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Elisa Vacherand
Interim Global Finance Practice Leader, WWF
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Liesel van Ast
Deputy Head
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Monica Zuleta Diaz
Corporate Director of Sustainability, MAPFRE